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Hard Work

“Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.” ~ Stephen King

Posted byA Pondering MindFebruary 25, 2021February 25, 2021Posted inUncategorizedTags: Quotes, Stephen King, Success, Talent

“Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.” ~Anton Chekhov

Posted byA Pondering MindJanuary 29, 2021January 28, 2021Posted inUncategorizedTags: Anton Chekhov, Crisis, life, Quotes, Success4 Comments on “Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.” ~Anton Chekhov

Learn By Doing

“You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.” ~ Richard Branson

Posted byA Pondering MindOctober 24, 2020Posted inUncategorizedTags: Quotes, Sir Richard Branson, Success

Success is never so interesting as struggle. ~ Willa Cather

Posted byA Pondering MindApril 2, 2020April 2, 2020Posted inUncategorizedTags: Quotes, Struggle, Success, Willa Cather2 Comments on Success is never so interesting as struggle. ~ Willa Cather

Success Is Learned

Success isn’t something that just happens – success is learned, success is practiced and then it is shared. -Sparky Anderson

Posted byA Pondering MindFebruary 3, 2020Posted inUncategorizedTags: Quotes, Sparky Anderson, Success

“Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.” ~Alice Walker

Posted byA Pondering MindDecember 10, 2019Posted inUncategorizedTags: Alice Walker, happiness, happy, people, Quotes, Success2 Comments on “Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.” ~Alice Walker

Talent

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads. ~Erica Jong

Posted byA Pondering MindJune 13, 2018June 13, 2018Posted inUncategorizedTags: Courage, Erica Jong, life, Quotes, Success, Talent

Coffee

Source: http://www.picturequotes.com

Posted byA Pondering MindApril 24, 2016April 24, 2016Posted inUncategorizedTags: Coffee, Quotes, Success, Thoughts, Wisdom13 Comments on Coffee

Paul Theroux On Writing

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Posted byA Pondering MindJanuary 4, 2016January 4, 2016Posted inUncategorizedTags: Paul Theroux, Practice, Quotes, Success, Thoughts, Wisdom, Writers, Writing

Stephen King

“Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.” – Stephen King http://www.bquot.es/s/736

Posted byA Pondering MindDecember 12, 2015Posted inUncategorizedTags: Quotes, Stephen King, Success, Talent, Thoughts, Wisdom, Work

Nicola Tesla

“One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.” – Nikola Tesla http://www.bquot.es/s/702

Posted byA Pondering MindDecember 7, 2015December 7, 2015Posted inUncategorizedTags: Insane, Nicola Tesla, Quotes, Sane, Success, Thoughts, Wisdom, Work

Stephen Fry Quote

“Moving from chair to chair, from coffee machine to coffee machine is the limit of my action in most films. But I enjoy being cast in them because I love watching them.” – Stephen Fry http://www.bquot.es/s/2152

Posted byA Pondering MindMarch 8, 2015March 7, 2015Posted inUncategorizedTags: Chair, Coffee, Coffee Machine, Films, Humor, Quotes, Success, Thoughts, Wisdom

Henry Ford Quote

“Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.” -Henry Ford

Posted byA Pondering MindFebruary 27, 2015Posted inUncategorizedTags: Beginning, Henry Ford, Progress, Quotes, Success, Thoughts, Wisdom, Working

Quote – Alan Watts

This is the real secret of life – to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play. -Alan Watts

Posted byA Pondering MindJanuary 19, 2015Posted inUncategorizedTags: Alan Watts, Play, Quotes, Secret, Success, Thoughts, Wisdom, Work7 Comments on Quote – Alan Watts

Quote

“No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.” Napoleon Hill

Posted byA Pondering MindNovember 5, 2014Posted inUncategorizedTags: Achieve, Failure, Man, Napoleon Hill, Quotes, Success, Thoughts, Time, Wisdom1 Comment on Quote

Success

RIP Jack John Symon Asher Bruce May 14, 1943 – October 25, 2014

Posted byA Pondering MindOctober 26, 2014October 26, 2014Posted inUncategorizedTags: Cream, Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker, Jack Bruce, money, Music, Musicians, Quotes, Success, Thoughts, Wisdom, Young

Success

Posted byA Pondering MindSeptember 28, 2014September 28, 2014Posted inUncategorizedTags: Courage, Failure, Fatal, Quotes, Success, Thoughts, Winston Churchill, Wisdom6 Comments on Success

Quote

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things. Walt Disney

Posted byA Pondering MindAugust 31, 2014Posted inUncategorizedTags: Quotes, Repeat, Success, Thoughts, Walt Disney, Wisdom, Work

Success

Source

Posted byA Pondering MindFebruary 19, 2014February 18, 2014Posted inQuotationsTags: Dictionary, Quotes, Success, Thoughts, Vidal Sassoon, Wisdom, Work4 Comments on Success

Matter

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Posted byA Pondering MindJanuary 21, 2014January 21, 2014Posted inQuotationsTags: Henry David Thoreau, Look, Matter, Quotes, Success, Thoughts, Wisdom4 Comments on Matter

Success

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do. — Bob Dylan

Posted byA Pondering MindSeptember 24, 2013September 24, 2013Posted inQuotationsTags: Bob Dylan, money, Morning, Night, Quotes, Success, Thoughts, Wisdom4 Comments on Success

If you would be not forgotten… – Benjamin Franklin

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Posted byA Pondering MindMay 24, 2013Posted inQuotationsTags: Benjamin Franklin, Death, Quotes, Reading, Success, Thoughts, Wisdom, Writing8 Comments on If you would be not forgotten… – Benjamin Franklin

A Man Is A Success… – Bob Dylan

 

Posted byA Pondering MindNovember 12, 2012Posted inQuotationsTags: Bob Dylan, Morning, Night, Quotes, Success, Thoughts, Wisdom9 Comments on A Man Is A Success… – Bob Dylan

Bill Gates

Posted byA Pondering MindOctober 4, 2012October 4, 2012Posted inQuotationsTags: Bill Gates, Quotes, Seduces, Success, Teacher, Thoughts, Wisdom8 Comments on Bill Gates

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